AFP, PARIS:  French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe on Friday laid out a raft of measures aimed at boosting Paris’s attractiveness to high finance to cash in on Britain’s exit from the European Union. Among them are scrapping a plan to widen a current 0.3 per cent tax on financial transactions,…

AFP, YANGON: With Myanmar emerging as a manufacturing hub for mass-produced clothes, a crop of young designers are using home-grown fashion to preserve…

AFP, FRANKFURT AM MAIN:  German prosecutors said Friday they have arrested a former executive of top-of-the-range car maker Audi in connection with the massive emissions-cheating scandal that has engulfed its parent company Volkswagen since 2015. The prosecutors did not name the manager, but according…

Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu yesterday said Bangladesh's agricultural produces, such as vegetables, spices and fruits have huge untapped potential and could potentially be exported to other countries, including India, as they expand operations, reports UNB. He said Bangladesh has a quite…

Some 260,000 residential consumers in Dhaka and Chittagong cities are going to get prepaid gas metres from next year under a Japan-funded project, reports…

AFP, WASHINGTON: The Federal Reserve said Friday it sees hopeful signs that business investment is poised to rebound from the doldrums of the global financial crisis and boost the US economy. But, in its semi-annual report to Congress, the central bank restated its view that the benchmark interest rate…

Bernd Scheifele, chairman of Germany based multinational company HeidelbergCement Group, has visited Bangladesh recently, the group said in a statement…

US-Bangla Airlines will introduce flights on Dhaka-Doha-Dhaka and Chittagong-Doha-Chittagong routes, connecting one of the most important cities of the Middle East region, from September 1, reports UNB. This will be seventh international destination connected by the US-Bangla Airlines. Initially four…

AFP, MONTREAL: Canada’s unemployment rate fell 0.1 per centage points in June to 6.5 per cent, official data showed Friday, with 45,000 new jobs added compared to the previous month, mainly in part-time work and among women. The number of jobs added was almost four times greater than economists’…

AFP, TOKYO: Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten has banned the sales of ivory products on its site, the company said Friday in a move hailed by conservation activists as a boost to international efforts to stem smuggling. Rakuten had been accused for years of providing the world's largest online marketplace…